[PATCH] audit: file system auditing based on location and name

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Jul 7 18:18:59 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:16:35PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:10 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Yes, and then I change namespaces to put /etc/shadow at
> > /foo/baz/etc/shadow and then access it that way?  Will the current
> > audit system fail to catch that access?
> 
> The watch is attached to the inode which you happened to call '/etc' in
> your namespace, and takes effect in _any_ namespace regardless of the
> path to it.
> 
> In the audit trail, you see the path which was used in the audited
> process's namespace, and also the filter key which was associated with
> that watch when you added it.

Ok, thanks, that makes sense.

greg k-h




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